Before Cottagecore: Girls and Cottages in Nineteenth-Century America
Stryker Center 412 N. Boundary St, Williamsburg, VACottagecore is a current social media movement and aesthetic that celebrates an idealized rural life. But long before TikTok, teenage girls dreamt about living in a cottage of their very own. In this talk, Emily Wells, doctoral candidate in History, will explore nineteenth-century manuscripts written by girls to examine how they thought about cottage life....